{"id":1236,"date":"2011-12-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/port-st-joe-biomass-developer-gives-up.html"},"modified":"2011-12-03T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T13:00:00","slug":"port-st-joe-biomass-developer-gives-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/port-st-joe-biomass-developer-gives-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Joe biomass developer gives up"},"content":{"rendered":"Another biomass plant bites the dust,\nthis time less than 200 miles southwest of here\nin Port St. Joe, Florida.\n<p>\nTim Croft wrote for the Star Thursday,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.starfl.com\/news\/energy-23986-rentech-plant.html\">\nDeveloper pulls out of energy center project<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.starfl.com\/news\/energy-23986-rentech-plant.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/images.onset.freedom.com\/starfl\/medium\/lvj5dt-lvj5doa1energycenter1.jpg\"><\/a>\nCiting an inability to secure financing Rentech, Inc., the developer\nof the Northwest Florida Renewable Energy Center has pulled out of\nthe project.\n<\/blockquote>\nWhat project? Down at the fourth paragraph the article finally says:\n<blockquote>\n&#8230;a 55 megawatt energy plant to be built in Port St. Joe.\n<p>\nThe plant, as proposed, would produce steam to drive generators to produce\nelectricity, the fuel source woody biomass, or forest residue. Progress\nEnergy had an agreement in place to purchase electricity from the plant.\n<\/blockquote>\nThe article blames the economy, but  that wasn&#8217;t all that did in\n\n<!--more-->\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/shell-companies-adage-and-wiregrass-power-llc.html\">a dozen other biomass plants around the country<\/a>\nin the past few years, including, of course, the one proposed for Lowndes County.\nIt&#8217;s just not an economical way of producing power.\n<p>\nAnd maybe this had something to do with it:\n<blockquote>\nProtests against the project continued from a citizens group alleging\nthe plant would not provide clean energy.\n<\/blockquote>\nNot that it converted the local old boys:\n<blockquote>\nHowever, local elected and economic development officials championed\nthe project and at one point it was seen as a magnet for other renewable\nenergy research and production companies to relocate to the area.\n<\/blockquote>\nWell, maybe the polarity of that magnet just turned to repulse.\n<p>\n-jsq\n<p>\nPS: Owed to Michael Noll.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another biomass plant bites the dust, this time less than 200 miles southwest of here in Port St. Joe, Florida. 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